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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/923.html
July 01, 2024 - Study Shows Strong Link Between Smoking, Opioid Use
Issue Number
923
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
July 30, 2024
AHRQ Stats: Postoperative Sepsis Rates In 2020, for every 1,000 elective surgical procedures, an average of 3.8 adult patients …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/warm-handoff-design-guide-final508.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Design Guide for Warm Handoff Plus
The Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care
Settings by Engaging Patients and Families
Design Guide for
Warm Handoff Plus
Introduction
In a typical primary care visit, the patient transitions from one member of the healthcare team
to another multiple times, often wit…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/assemble/alt-text.html
March 01, 2013 - Assemble Module Slides Text Description
Slide Number and Title
Slide Content
Content for Alternative Text (Illustration)
Slide 1
Cover Slide
(CUSP Toolkit logo)
The "Assemble the Team" module of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit. The CUSP toolkit is a modular app…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/944.html
January 01, 2025 - Affordable Care Act Boosts Individual Health Insurance Enrollment and Stability
Issue Number
944
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
January 14, 2025
Editor’s Note: AHRQ News Now will not publish next week. Our next issue will publish Jan. 28. AH…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/961.html
June 01, 2025 - Researcher Akira Nishisaki Designs Quality Improvement Processes To Reduce Harm in Pediatric ICUs
Issue Number
961
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
June 10, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Annual Expenditures for Diet-Related Health Conditions Treatment for m…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/960.html
June 01, 2025 - Study Reveals Sharp Decline in Mothers’ Mental Health
Issue Number
960
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
June 3, 2025
AHRQ Stats: U.S. Adults Treated for Diet-Related Conditions An average of 84.1 million adults were treated for at least one ma…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/949.html
March 01, 2025 - New Interactive Data Resource Illustrates Trends in Sepsis Hospital Care
Issue Number
949
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
March 11, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Trends in MRSA Rates, 2016 to 2021 While the overall rate of adult inpatient stays with a diag…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/c3_pdi_staffpresentation.pptx
January 01, 2006 - Background for AHRQ Quality Indicators
Use this PowerPoint presentation as a template for your presentation to hospital staff.
Replace the charts with charts that you create with your data (using the Excel workbook in Tool B.3a) and replace the red text with information relevant to your hospital.
Modify as needed to …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/chipra-16-p001-3-ef.pdf
April 01, 2016 - Measure: Developmental Screening Follow-up: Follow-up Referral Tracking
Measure: Developmental Screening Follow-up:
Follow-up Referral Tracking
Measure Developer: Pediatric Measurement Center of Excellence (PMCoE)
Numerator Denominator Exclusions Data Source(s)
Patients whose primary care
clinician received feed…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/index.html
August 01, 2025 - Reports and Other Publications
AHRQ’s Investments in Primary Care Research for 2023 and 2024 NCEPCR’s second comprehensive report is a review of AHRQ’s recent investments in primary care research – covering federal fiscal years (FYs) 2023 and 2024. The report includes an update on the activities of AHRQ’s NC…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/co-statesum.pdf
July 01, 2015 - CHIPRA - Spotlight on Colorado
July 2015
This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned,
and outcomes from Colorado’s experience in the quality
demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children’s Health
Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIP…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/intervention-tracking-notes-sw.pdf
June 02, 2025 - ENSW FIELD NOTE FORM
1
ENSW FIELD NOTE FORM
1. *Your role: [Check all that apply]
Facilitator
HERO
CHITA
Regional Health Connector (RHC)
Other: Specify_________________________
2. *Your Organization:
3. *Your Name:
4. *Clinic ID and Name:
5. *Date of Meeting/Contact:
6.…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_sustspreading_facnotes.docx
December 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements
Sustaining and Spreading Improvements – Facilitator Notes
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements
SAY:
This module will cover Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improveme…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/spreading-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Facilitator Notes
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery
Slide 1: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements
Say:
This module will cover Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements. To preface the sustainability discussions, these modu…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/rev-reportaddendum.pdf
March 01, 2021 - The Five Principles of Effective Primary Care-Based Care Coordination for Reducing Potentially Preventable Readmissions
Final Report: Potentially Preventable Readmissions: A Conceptual Framework To Rethink the Role of Primary Care: Addendum 1
The Five Principles of Effective Primary Care-Based Care
Coordination fo…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4k_combo_psi14-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
1 Tool D.4k
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PSI 14: Postoperative Wound Dehiscence
Why Focus on Postoperative Wound Dehiscence?
• Postop…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/decolonization-first-steps.html
October 01, 2024 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs
Tools & Resources for Decolonization: First Steps, Readiness, and Pre-Launch
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs
The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention
The Importance of MRSA Prevention
Decolonization
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/functspecs.html
December 01, 2017 - AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Functional Specifications
1.0. Functional Specs for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
2.0. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Reports
3.0. Specifications for Each Pressure Ulcer Prevention Report
3.1. Nutrition Risk Reports: High Risk and …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Tool_4_Letters_508.docx
June 02, 2025 - Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Tool 4)
Strategy 1: Working With Patients & Families as Advisors (Tool 4)
Sample Letter of Invitation
for Advisory Council Applicants
Dear [insert name],
I am pleased to invite you to join the [patient and family advisory council or name of the council if it ha…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/primer-understanding-cahps-surveys.pdf
June 02, 2025 - AHRQ's CAHPS® Program
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Director, CAHPS & SOPS
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, AHRQ
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AHRQ’s Core Competencies
• AHRQ is a research and development agency in
the US Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Systems Research: Invest in research…